Authorization to Copy or Publish Manuscript

Table of Contents

• Requesting authorization
• Scanning by Self Service and Ordering Scans
• Source Libraries

Requesting authorization

To Copy or Publish Manuscripts

In general, the National Library and its users are not authorized to copy and publish manuscripts which were photocopied from various sources without written permission from the source libraries.

List of libraries whose manuscripts may be scanned without asking permission.

To ask for permission, please send the appropriate application form from the list below to the source library by e-mail:

Request permission to photocopy from the Sassoon Library, Bayit Vagan

Request permission to photocopy from the Lehman Collection, New York

Other Libraries

Once the permission is received please forward it to: [email protected]​

The manuscript can only be scanned after we receive the permission. 

You can scan by self-service, or order the scan here.

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Scanning by Self Service and Ordering Scans

1. If you wish to scan the manuscript in the self-service photocopy desk in the Special Collections Reading Room or purchase a scanned copy it is necessary to check the source of the manuscript.

This information appears in the Library Catalog:

The manuscript’s source is also listed on “Ktiv” website:

3. If the source is one of the following:

• Jerusalem, The National Library of Israel
• Oxford, Bodleian Library
• London, The British Library
• Saint Petersburg, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Cambridge, University Library

Please click here.

4. If the manuscript is from another source, please send to the source library an application form for permission to scan, and forward the approval to the National Library of Israel to the e-mail address: [email protected].

5. The manuscript can only be scanned after we receive the approval from you. You may scan by means of self-service, or order the scan here.